Anyone heard of these guys? what are they like?

Also, I want to buy a premodded Xbox off them, they have no price list on their site and havnt returned my email ( possibly my server is down tho ) so i was wondering what $400 - $500 would get you?

Cheers

Eds

I'll buy it next week for $200pp...

pfft, just like i bought your mum this week for 200c

upgrade-x is pretty good.
i got my s*** done there. really cheap compared with most others.

its basicly a guy who does it from his house, he does a few shops in the area.

but if you got any trouble he'll help you out as much as he can.
really nice guy

last edited by Fuknukle at 20:38:14 28/Apr/04

yeah had pretty good experiences with him. does a good job and fully explains to you how the whole system works... you could off course just go and buy an xbox and take it to him to mod for you... the price of them these days are crazy... harvey's had them for $199.00 the other day.

Yeah, the upgrade x guy rocks.

we got an xbox software modded for 320 bux

i love it dearly

its actually decimates, but i love his so much, im gonna get my own

second hand xbox $180
hard drive $140
software mod using font exploit, phoenix bios loader and latest evox bios, free
we use xbox connect to play over net

good times aplenty

we've just discoverd segaGT
most impressive

hurrah for xbox

Im still looking to modd my xbox but at the same time i'm actually looking to sell it as i need some cash for other things such as wheels for me car. Havent made a sold yet but will when i feel like it.

Pitty my xbox and i could have had some great times with a modd =( Bye bye PGR2 and Splinter Cell =(

booyah, how much ?

msn ipickedup@msn.com! :P

Guys who bought from upgrade x , what mod chip did you get?

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last edited by koopz at 22:35:23 28/Apr/04

get the xenium modchip... its $150.00 but worth it... 5th gen with its own os and you can load upto 5 bios on it... works like a charm and you wont run into problems like some of the cheaper ones.

what benefit does having its own os and five bioses provide over a normal modchip that does naught more than run unsigned code and allow for HD replacement?

^^^^^ Same question as him

no benefit. waste of money! im happy with my xecuter 2.3 whatever

what benefit does having its own os and five bioses provide over a normal modchip that does naught more than run unsigned code and allow for HD replacement?

I think its only 4 bioses, the 5th bios is considered the original one (ie, botting up with the chip off). But Its not just 4 bioses, its fully configurable flash memory, so you can divy it up however you want (a 1mb bios and two 512kb, or a 2mb bios, or 4 512kb, etc) whic allows for pretty much unlimited expansion if, at some point in the future, someone releases a crazy huge bios that does super funky things. Also, if you were interested in dev, it'd allow you to have the debug bios on there at the same time as any other bioses you wanted.

Choosing what bios it boots up with is all done with the controller too, no fiddling around having to hold power buttons down or flick switches. You set one of the bioses up as the default, which boots if no controller buttons are pressed, and the other bioses are assigned to buttons. For example, Holding down X during boot might load bios 1, holding down Y might load bios 2, etc. And I think (from memory) holding down the black button boots with the modchip switched off. It also has built in protection that stops games trying to connect to Live if they try while your mod is switched on (so you wont get inadvertently banned), but I think a couple of other chips do this now too.

Above all though, its just a really nice, well made product. Very configurable, very easy to use, very professional. If I had the money I'd go get my generic LPC based chip ripped out and replaced with a Xenium in an instant.

Upgrade-X rock.

Heres some info on the Xenium chip.

Heres the site of the guys who made it.

Also if you don't get a xenium chip you are too retarded to post in this thread.

Too many benefits not to get one and its future ready.

Eds I have also bought a few chips off him. Very nice guy and I would recommend anyone to go to him.

I also know another guy that got a chip installed from him recently and he is also very happy.

Don't go anywhere else.

From speaking to him I think quite a few qglers have got chips through him.

Since this thread seems to be newbie friendly i'll continue to hijaak it.

I dont understand about flashing bioses. I've a xecutor 1.1. My understanding is that it provides no bios flashing ability so i'm still running with whatever bios the xbox comes with.

I have to manually patch for 'New Media Check' myself, and games generally don't run if i have the evox software reset enabled. But apart from this i dont have any problems.

Should i be able to flash the bios on my xbox to some other bios and that will provide features such as soft reset and inplace NewMediaCheck patching?